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1 of 8Driver Ryan Dalziel awaits service in the Extreme Patron car, which was shaking down a new Honda engine. Dalziel is a new addition to the Prototype team, co-owned by driver Scott Sharp. This is a car from the American Le Mans Series P2 ranks.

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2 of 8Moving up from the GT ranks, the Whelen-sponsored Marsh Racing team is a new addition to the Prototype ranks with the Chevrolet Corvette, built to Daytona Protottpe specs.

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3 of 8The DeltaWing competed in the ALMS P1 class last year, but with that class eliminated in the merger, it will race in the Prototype category in the new Tudor United SportsCar Championship.

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4 of 8Boris Said, one of the drivers of the Whelen Corvette, takes it easy until his turn to stretch the Corvette’s legs.

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5 of 8The Flying Lizard team, traditionally Porsche customers, are moving to an Audi R8 to race in GT this season.

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6 of 8One team sticking with Porsche, and the company’s new Porsche America race car, is Magnus, and with good reason – team owner and driver John Potter and co-driver Andy Lally have a Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona win to their credit.

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7 of 8Project Libra, a European team fielding a Ford-powered Radical, was testing the waters pending a Prototype effort for the 2014 season.

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8 of 8Another longtime Porsche customer, The Racers Group, led by owner Kevin Buckler, has moved to Aston-Martin for the 2014 season.

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About two dozen cars showed up for the weekend test at Sebring International Raceway, marking the first time the Tudor United SportsCar Championship competitors have had a chance to get on the track with each other.

And despite some rain Saturday, and a moderately damaging crash by NGT's brand-new Porsche GT America on Sunday, it was comparatively uneventful.

There was, however, quite a bit of talk in the pits about the lack of a final rules package, with the season-opening Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona barely two months away. Series officials also haven't released a points system, saying that they need to complete a technical rules package before finalizing how the points will work.

The problem, of course, is that the new series combines all but two classes from both the Grand-Am and American Le Mans Series into one grid -- only the ALMS P1 class, and the Grand-Am GTD class, populated by the diesel Mazda 6, the Porsche Cayman and a Lotus or two is being cancelled.

Consequently, especially in the Prototype class, the series is having a tough time in performance-balancing the very different Daytona Prototype and LMP2 cars into one group. And officials likely didn't learn much at Sebring, with only a few Prototype cars on hand. Some of the major teams, like the new Mazda diesel Prototype, the Chip Ganassi Racing Fords, the DP champion Wayne Taylor Racing team and the Michael Shank Racing Fords declined to participate, instead running in private tests where there is less scrutiny, and less motivation to sandbag, less chance they will be assessed performance penalties when the rules are announced.

One longtime PR staffer was kidding when he said that maybe the series will just start the Rolex 24, watch what happens, then halfway through decide who gets penalized, and who gets a little more power, a little less weight, for the last half of the race.

Everyone, though, is in the same boat, but the Daytona Prototype teams likely have the most work to do, at the greatest expense, once the final rules are in place. The United SportsCar Championship is bound to let the P2 cars run essentially the same rules as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, so a different aero package for the big tracks and the addition or subtraction of weight will be their main expense.

That said, the Sebring tests were interesting. Fastest Sunday was the Action Express Corvette DP with a best lap of 1:53.748 (118.367 mph) by IndyCar driver Sébastien Bourdais, who commented on the initial changes made to performance-balance the DPs. "The changes really change the feel of the car, but it doesn't change its character," said Bourdais. “It's a quicker car. I think we'll gain about three seconds at Daytona. If we balance it, maybe there's a bit more in it. The rear diffuser really helps set the back of the car down. These cars didn't have much downforce before, but they have significantly more now." Saturday's best time was João Barbosa in the same car, with an unofficial lap of 1:53.266 (118.871 mph).

Only one Prototype Challenge car showed up, and it was an odd duck: The Pickett Muscle Milk team, winners of the final ALMS P1 championship, ran the Chevrolet-powered car to give Nissan's Gran Turismo Academy winners Bryan Heitkotter and Steven Doherty some seat time. Muscle Milk still hasn't made the final announcement on its 2014 plans.

A pair of SRT Vipers showed up -- one will race in the GTLM class (which is for ALMS GT cars), and the other was a Bill Riley-built Viper GT3-R that will be sold to customers. The number 93 SRT Viper GTS-R was fastest in the GTLM class at 2:01.619 (110.706 mph), and the Riley Motorsports SRT Viper GT3-R was the fastest GTD car at 2:04.539 (108.111 mph).

It's strange seeing Kevin Buckler's The Racer's Group logo on something besides a Porsche, but TRG is running Aston Martins for the full season. He had one Aston at Sebring, and the British factory team had another, which they brought over for the Circuit of the Americas race and left with Buckler so they didn't have to send it back to England, then back to the U.S. for this test.

It's also strange to see the Flying Lizard logo on an Audi R8 instead of a Porsche, but the team figured it would have to adapt to a new car anyway since Porsche is transitioning to the new Porsche America, so they went with the Audi. "I'm really pleased," driver Spencer Pumpelly said. "The car is fun to drive. It's a lot different from a 911, which is good and bad. I'm so used to them, it almost feels like home, so I'm having to re-evaluate some things I do in the race car." Paul Miller Racing was also shaking down its new Audi.

There will, however, be no shortage of Porsches this year. Longtime factory affiliate Alex Job, after running Lotus, Audi and Ferrari the last couple of years, is back with a two-car Porsche team. "We're back to where we used to be, back to my roots of having a two-car, Porsche-only team," said Job. "It's a good thing for us right now because we have new cars this year and we've got to learn these new cars. I feel blessed to have a two-car program because having two cars gives us the ability to go in different directions and learn what these cars want as quickly as possible."

A total of 2,819 laps (10,543.06 miles) were run over two days at Sebring. The series will reconvene on Tuesday at Daytona International Speedway for another two days of testing.